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A10
news
Guardian www.guardian.co.tt Wednesday, July 24, 2013
GAIL ALEXANDER
A clear idea of
who will win
Chaguanas West
should be estab-
lished at latest by
11 pm next Mon-
day, says Elections and Boundaries Chaguanas
West returning officer Everard Ross.
Ross said yesterday that this was because the
Chaguanas West seat involved checking ballots from
the boxes at 51 polling stations in the constituency
where Monday s by-election will take place.
He said all systems were in place for the exercise,
which begins at 6 am and ends at 6 pm.
Ross said 30 people had voted on Monday and
another six up to midday yesterday after special
voting began on Monday. Chaguanas West has 70
special voters, he added.
Ross said the 51 polling stations are located within
the area s 30 polling divisions. He said 270 people
would be involved in the exercise on EBC s behalf.
Each station would have five people, with addi-
tional people roving around the constituency, he
added.
After close of poll on Monday, Ross said ballots
would be checked at each polling station and a tally
sheet with the total from each station would be
sent to the returning officer s base office.
He estimated the first box s total should arrive
within the first 90 minutes after close of poll.
Ross projected boxes would continue arriving in
the next couple hours after that and he guessed
that a clear trend for a winner could be established
by 11 pm latest.
Ross, an EBC veteran, has been an election officer
since 1970 and has presided over elections in various
areas since then.
Ross could not give an estimated cost for Monday s
exercise, however.
EBC chief elections officer Ramesh Nanan was
in a meeting when the T&T Guardian attempted to
contact him yesterday, his secretary said.
Apart from the Chaguanas West election, staff
at EBC s head office said they are also "rushing"
to prepare for local government polls due by October.
They said a voter registration drive for that would
have to be opened later on. At Monday s UNC forum,
the Prime Minister said those elections would come
right after the Chaguanas West poll.
On costs among some of the parties involved in
Monday s electoral fight, UNC deputy leader Suruj
Rambachan yesterday said he did not know the
UNC s cost and referred questions to fellow deputy
leader Roodal Moonilal, whom he said was handling
the campaign. Attempts to contact Moonilal were
unsuccessful. Other UNC campaign officials would
only say the cost was "within the $50,000 allocated
within the Representation of the People s Act."
ILP leader Jack Warner didn t answer calls. Sunil
Ramjitsingh, who works with Warner s team, said
he had "no information" on Warner s campaign
costs.
PNM chairman Franklin Khan said, "We estimate
our campaign costs are minimal, about several hun-
dred thousand dollars, small compared to the costs
of our opponents."
PIMP's Chaguanas West by-
election candidate Ishmael
Samad speaks to a woman
who approached him along
the Chaguanas Main Road,
Chaguanas, on Monday.
Samad, one of six
candidates in the July 29 by-
election, was on a
walkabout in the area.
PHOTO: ROBERTO CODALLO
All systems
in place
for results
by11pm
SAMAD TALKS
EBC official: